<i>A Grown-Up’s Guide to Flying</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Grown-Up’s Guide to Flying is one of three standalone escape room-inspired experiences featured in Outside the March’s 2019 production of The Tape Escape. Set in a completely immersive, period-perfect 1990s’ video rental store in the former Annex location of Toronto’s iconic Queen Video, the piece is experienced through a series of narrative escape room-style puzzles hidden among 5,000-plus VHS rentals. The audience follows Kelly as he plans a birthday treasure hunt for his movie-loving younger sister, all while navigating how we experience movies—and each other—when our sighted experience changes. The story was designed to be experienced by a group of up to four people at a time and ran approximately forty-five minutes. It began, as each of the “rental experiences” in The Tape Escape did, with the group being handed a VHS tape with a sticker on it that read “Watch Me.” A video store staff member would then guide the group to one of the store’s “TV-VCR viewing stations” where the group could pop in the tape and watch what, in this case, appeared to be a birthday video message. This article includes production stills and a script excerpt written by creators Vanessa Smythe, Mitchell Cushman, and Nick Bottomley with consultation from Blindness scholar and artist Devon Healey.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.182 | 0.050 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".